Category Archives: Photographs

Written by Ariel Polokoff, ICFA Intern (Spring 2015), The George Washington University, Class of 2015 This past Spring semester, I had the privilege of interning in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (ICFA) at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. This internship offered a two-fold benefit to my undergraduate education—it was both … Continue reading →

Written by Carrie Ferguson, ICFA Intern (Fall 2014) and degree candidate, Catholic University, Library and Information Science; Edited by ICFA staff This fall I worked as an Image Cataloging intern in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives and one of my primary projects was to create a comprehensive list of photographers represented in the archive. I compiled … Continue reading →

ICFA is currently recruiting interns for the Spring term. Please click on the links below for the full internship descriptions and application instructions. Please note that students must be able to earn course credit for these internships. Exhibition Intern Intern will assist the Byzantine Research Associate with the onsite and online exhibit “The Holy Apostles: Visualizing … Continue reading →

Written by Jessica Cebra, ICFA Departmental Assistant Between 1927 and 1932, the director of the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, Egypt, Evaristo Breccia conducted three excavation campaigns at the site of ancient Oxyrhynchos, today’s El Bahnasa. The excavations uncovered roughly 500 fragments of decorative architectural sculpture, a mix of capitals, friezes, cornices and other decorated blocks. … Continue reading →

Written by Anne-Marie Viola, Metadata and Cataloging Specialist In further exploring the connections between former Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Art and Archaeology Professor Sirarpie Der Nersessian and the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives’ illuminated manuscript photograph collection (described in my previous post), I followed a lead from our curatorial files that took me to the Library … Continue reading →

Written by Anne-Marie Viola, Metadata and Cataloging Specialist Since processing this tiny, two-box collection last year, I keep coming back to my subject, Professor Sirarpie Der Nersessian, to explore the web of relationships that she maintained in a life that blurred the personal and professional – as was typical of faculty in the early days of … Continue reading →